versify

to make or compose verses

Verb

  1. to make or compose verses
    • I'll versify in spite, and do my best. - 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into...
  2. to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
  3. to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form

Origin

From Middle English versifien, from Old French versifier, learned borrowing from Latin versificāre (“versify”), from versus (see verse) + faciō (“make”).

Forms

versifies versifying versified

Derived

versifier